Severin

Votes have now been submitted. Probably the least 'me' of all the contests so far as it felt very Eurovisin (regardless of where the acts were from). Nevertheless a cracking top scorer and two very good podium finishers too.

Should be in by tonight

The first album was recorded in 2022 and early 2023. The only song from the new album they played live in 2023 was Second Best which debuted in Oct 23. They started working on From the Pyre in late 2024 and recorded in in early 2025. You could argue it was rushed but I don't think it's left over songs. Two and a half years is plenty of time for writing and recording.

An old playlist that I've chucked in a few new one this morning. It's a mixed bag of styles but you won't find any Michael Jackson or Ray Parker Jr for sure.

This weeks additions - Lake Malice - Nobody Wants to Be You Kid Kapichi - Shoe Size Last Dinner Party - Count The Ways City Dog - Kayden Grove Street - Self Sabotage

100th - 127 scrobbles - Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name 200th - 106 scrobbles - Hole - Doll Parts 300th - 95 scrobbles - The Merry Thoughts - Pale Empress 400th - 88 scrobbles - R.E.M. - The Sidewinder Sleeps Toonite 500th - 82 scrobbles - The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Goggles 600th - 76 scrobbles - Dead Kennedys - Bleed For Me 700th - 72 scrobbles - Editors - An End Has a Start 800th - 68 scrobbles - Back to the Planet - You're the Judge 900th - 65 scrobbles - Sugababes - Hole in the Head 1000th - 62 scrobbles - Nitzer Ebb - Getting Closer

I still listen to a fair bit of stuff from back in that era. We're talking late 80s to early 90s for me and my main tastes were Goth, Punk, Post Punk, Grindcore, Grebo, Indie Pop, Industrial and what was then known as College Rock or sometimes just Alternative. There was heavy rotation for bands as diverse as Sisters of Mercy, Gaye Bykers on Acid, R.E.M. Pixies, Ministry, Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols, L7, Sonic Youth, The Clash, Echo & the Bunnymen, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Jane's Addiction, Smiths, Napalm Death, Slayer or The Primitives. John Peel was an essential week night's listening and the local independent live venue was the only place to be on a Friday night. Much of that music has very much stayed with me and I still listen to a lot of it on a regular basis, as I also do stuff from both my younger years and later years. I do listen to a lot of modern and recent music too though. If there is a period I don't go back to quite so much it is probably the late 2000s to mid 2010s as other things like children took up much time and I was never able to indulge my music listening as deeply - I finally gave up setting pub quizzes in 2008 (but still compete) and so the 'studying' element faded away. A little graph of my Top 100 played artists on Last Fm categorised by predominant decade - 60s - III 70s - IIIII IIIII I 80s - IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII I 90s - IIIII IIIII IIIII II 00s - IIIII IIIII IIIII 10s - IIII 20s - III Naturally for an account that has been active since 2007 older artists have an advantage in accumulated plays but it does suggest I return to the 80s quite often, and it's not a surprise but looking at the acts in question most were indeed on heavy rotation in my late teens and early 20s. Some like R.EM. Prince and Jesus & Mary Chain straddled the 80s and 90s but are filed under 80s as that was when I first listened to them regularly. That being said my early 20s were all in the 90s and that doesn't show a preference over music from afterwards. At an estimate I'd suggest maybe a quarter of what I listen to these days comes from that 1989-94 period and another quarter from modern tracks covering the last 5 years. Interestingly, the next two acts outside my top 100 are Calva Louise and Taylor Swift, both more modern ,so I'd expect them soon be disposing of Nitzer Ebb and The Waterboys, two acts I listened to a lot during the period in question

This Week - Bob Vylan - Sad Sick World LEMONSUCKR - Sedated Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia False Advertising - The Sorry Window Tribe of Ghosts - NERVE Rob Zombie - Punks and Demons The Wytches - Is The World Too Old? Sick Joy - Anything Goes Previous Week - Last Dinner Party - Second Best Pop Will Eat Itself - Built For Fun PROJECTOR - Hope Springs Eternal Creeper - Prey For the Night YONAKA - Problems Demob Happy - Who Should I Say is Calling? Kasabian - Hippie Sunshine

Loads here I don't know and only a handful of artists I've heard before, so a complete leap in to the unknown here. A few I seriously considered but dropped in the end, for various reasons -

I'm pretty sure Charles Leclerc's girlfriend has had more screen time this year than Colapinto

Have sent an entry. Wanted to send so many songs. Hope some got picked elsewhere.

Barely

You could watch the first lap. Have a long doze and then tune in for the most exciting part of the race - the final lap. Here you can watch Alonso's 40 second gap to Hamilton shrink on the timing sidebar, whilst the TV cameras show absolutely none of it

Both Williams will almost certainly be disqualified due to an illegal DRS width.

As JFK once said - 'Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable' The Government should heed his words. As much as I wish it weren't the case violent action is an effective method to affect change and although studies show that peaceful protest and disruption IS more effective, it isn't always enough. To paraphrase Martin Luther King Jr, when nobody is listening rioting is the last resort of the unheard. Sometimes you have to break stuff to be noticed

TLDP, NIN and White Horses

Great idea. Query - Does every line have to be in a foreign language? I immediately thought of a song with one line in English but 90% of the song in another language.

It was but it all became known in 2009. Maybe i could've worded it better.

2009 showed there are other ways to make it interesting 😅

Of the three title contenders - Piastri - The most level headed driver of the three, on the whole, and whilst he's probably the least quick of them, he has great pace, excellent wheel to wheel combat skills and fine racecraft. Tyre management has previously been a weakness but that looks to be under control. Remains to be seen if Baku was just an off weekend or if the pressure is starting to be felt. Norris - The fastest of the two McLaren drivers but he is questionable at decision making and prone to unforced errors. Undoubtedly feels the pressure, has self doubt and can be easily flustered. Verstappen - The best driver on the grid, ruthless on track and has complete self belief in his abilities. Knows how to win a championship and knows the rules and how far he can push them. Piastri needs to pressurise and impose himself over Norris and stay composed. If he does that he can extend his lead gradually. McLaren need to be wary of Verstappen and may find they need to back one driver towards the end. Piastri needs to stay ahead of Norris until then if he wants that to be him. Norris has the speed but he needs to cut out the errors and up his game to win. The deficit is small enough to overcome and it does feel like McLaren would prefer him to be the champion of the two. Verstappen needs the Red Bull upgrade to be competitive on every type of circuit not just the high speed tracks. Tsunoda may yet figure but It's pretty much two against one, if Verstappen can get between them he can disrupt their strategy and influence the outcome, perhaps in his favour. The season finale is probably three races too soon to overcome the deficit but he can have an impact and hope to replicate Prost's 1986 or Raikkonnen's 2007 win (select your preference on that one). Another wonder lap in Qualifying at Singapore could really ramp up the pressure and open it up for the win. Too hard to call it outright yet but I've said Piastri since day one so I'm sticking with it. I even bought the 1:43 scale model for the display cabinet back in April

Top 40 Plays - September 01 Linkin Park 95 02 Die Spitz 94 03 Gaffa Tape Sandy 86 04 Garbage 82 05 HotWax 76 06 Bambie Thug 67 07 Peter Gabriel 64 08 Heartworms 61 09 Saint Agnes 58 10 CLT DRP 54 11 Witch Fever 53 12 The Smiths 48 13 Manic Street Preachers 43 14 The Jam 43 15 Siouxsie 40 16 Super Furry Animals 35 17 The Waterboys 34 18 Horrorpops 32 19 The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster 32 20 Interpol 31 21 Kings of Leon 31 22 The Prodigy 31 23 Against Me! 30 24 Bruce Springsteen 29 25 My Chemical Romance 29 26 Nova Twins 29 27 The Adverts 28 28 Cwfen 27 29 Some Days Are Darker 27 30 Avenged Sevenfold 26 31 David Bowie 25 32 Oasis 25 33 Tomahawk 25 34 GWAR 24 35 Bloc Party 23 36 Lambrini Girls 23 37 Arctic Monkeys 22 38 Hands Off Gretel 22 39 Slipknot 22 40 Talking Heads 22 2025 to Date Artists Scrobbled 1,987 (+74) Rank/Previous Position/Artist/Plays/Change 01 (01) Manic Street Preachers 263 (+43) 02 (02) R.E.M. 224 (+15) 03 (03) Lambrini Girls 204 (+23) 04 (21) HotWax 186 (+76) 05 (28) Garbage 182 (+82) 06 (04) The Sisters of Mercy 178 (-) 07 (07) Utravox 159 (+6) 08 (10) Nova Twins 158 (+29) 09 (06) Fields of the Nephilim 156 (+3) 10 (05) Creaming Jesus 154 (-) 11 (11) David Bowie 152 (+25) 12 (29) Witch Fever 151 (+53) 13 (36) Heartworms 150 (+61) 14 (08) Poppy 149 (-) 15 (48) Peter Gabriel 147 (+64) 16 (NE) Linkin Park 145 17 (12) The Cramps 140 (+13) 18 (13) Siouxsie & the Banshees 136 (+17) 19 (15) Pulp 133 (+15) 20 (45) The Smiths 132 (+48) 21 (09) Dana Dentata 131 (+1) 22 (19) Calva Louise 130 (+20) 23 (NE) Die Spitz 128 24 (14) PROJECTOR 126 (+8) 25 (24) Killing Joke 119 (+14) 26 (16) Ozzy Osbourne 117 (+3) 27 (20) Chappell Roan 113 (+3) 28 (17) Pixies 113 (-) 29 (50) Interpol 112 (+31) 30 (44) Cwfen 111 (+27) 31 (18) Black Sabbath 110 (-) 32 (RE) Bambie Thug 109 (+57) 33 (22) Taylor Swift 109 (-) 34 (25) Suede 108 (-) 35 (24) Christian Death 107 (+2) 36 (27) Kid Kapichi 106 (+4) 37 (32) The Jesus & Mary Chain 106 (+10) 38 (NE) Gaffa Tape Sandy 105 39 (31) Echo & the Bunnymen 104 (+8) 40 (26) Mimi Barks 104 (-) 41 (33) The Psychedelic Furs 103 (+11) 42 (35) Eville 101 (+10) 43 (30) Gaye Bykers on Acid 99 (+2) 44 (RE) Bruce Springstenn 94 (+29) 45 (40) Pop Will Eat Itself 94 (+7) 46 (37) The Horrors 93 (+4) 47 (49) The Clash 92 (+10) 48 (34) Zodiac Mindwarp & the Love Reaction 92 (-) 49 (NE) Ramones 90 50 (NE) Saint Agnes 90 OUT THIS MONTH Bauhaus 89 (+6) Nitzer Ebb 89 (+2) Creedence Clearwater Revival 88 (-) Iron Maiden 87 (+2) Play Dead 86 (-) Dumfun 85 (-) Delilah Bon 83 (-) FORMER TOP 40 ACTS Joan Jett and the Blackhearts 81 (+9) Nine Inch Nails 81 (+7) Fleetwood Mac 80 (+5) Eminem 77 (+2) Public Image Ltd 75 (+8) Curve 71 (+4) Lady Gaga 71 (+7) The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing 71 (-) Kraftwerk 70 (+4) Birdeatsbaby 68 (-) Green Day 68 (+6) The Mission 64 (+2) Ghost 62 (-) Beyoncé 61 (-) Cassyette 61 (+13) Rihanna 60 (+13) SNAYX 60 (-) The Southern Death Cult 60 (-) The Rolling Stones 59 (+2) Jar of Blind Flies 58 (+2) Britney Spears 56 (+2) Sick Joy 56 (+11) El Moono 54 (-) Ministry 54 (-) The March Violets 54 (-) Shadow Project 53 (-) Heilung 52 (-) Mudhoney 49 (+2) Betty Boo 48 (-) Billie Eilish 48 (-) Crimson Veil 48 (-) The Beatles 45 (+2) Girls Aloud 42 (+9) Doechii 40 (-) Viagra Boys 39 (-) Harpy 39 (-) Knife Bride 37 (-) Slung 37 (-) Charli XCX 37 (-) Halsey 33 (-) Heriot 33 (+10) Du Blonde 29 (-) Siiickbrain 28 (-) Elvis Presley 25 (-) SONS 20 (-)

OK, so I quite like the new one... Typical

Enzo Osella has died at the age of 89. He founded the Osella F1 team that competed in 132 Grand Prix between 1980 and 1990

In January, who would have thought Verstappen would have won as many races in a Ferrari as Lewis Hamilton has this year

Maybe we should just do a rate...